I don't have too much faith in this idea, but RealID could limit trolling and flaming, not by revealing the troll, but by revealing the victim. It's easy to be a jerk to Lawlgoleslo, but what about John? Maybe the assholes will see that they are being assholes to real people, just like them. Could this evoke mercy, sympathy, human connection?

I'm sure it will.

I'm equally sure that the truly horrible people will have that much more with which to attack a person.

ANYTHING about an individual can be made fun of, and things can get personal real quick.

It doesnt hurt much to make fun of someone's character name, but someone's real name will be connected with all sorts of negative stereotypes by whatever the troller can read into your name.

Names can reveal ones heritage, gender, and even socio-economic class. Vitaly, DeShawn, Goldberg, Jessica, Sanjeet, Muhammad...we can make many assumptions about these people based on their names alone.

Instead of someone just trolling another's comments/spec/class, etc, people will troll that person's IDENTITY. Racial slurs, innuendo and other grabage will only have a great impact.